Acute necrotizing pancreatitis following coronary artery angiography: A case report

Majid Hajimaghsoudi; Faezeh Zeinali; Mehrdad Mansouri; Mohammad Hosein Dehghani

Vol 13, No 3 (2017):156-158

Acute necrotizing pancreatitis following coronary artery angiography: A case report

Majid Hajimaghsoudi, Faezeh Zeinali, Mehrdad Mansouri, Mohammad Hosein Dehghani

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Acute pancreatitis has different etiologies from biliary stone to metabolic disturbances. Coronary angiography is one of the newly understood etiologies.

CASE REPORT: This paper is about a women suffering from acute pancreatitis after coronary angiography.

CONCLUSION: Embolization of cholesterol crystals due to vessel wall trauma during coronary angiography as well as contrast medium are responsible for such side effect.

Keywords

Pancreatic Diseases; Coronary Angiography; Contrast Media

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